I’m not exactly sure if peripheral vision caused the illusion or image retention by the brain or a bit of both but I clearly got it.

I was already aware that seeing is not perceiving but this is taking it to an extreme. Taking a long walk alone on a quite, isolated, tree shrouded, one lane country lane late at night a person is apt to perceive most anything.

“By any honest account, Apple operates today with a mindset of total monopolistic domination, requiring apps to be sold through its iTunes, where Apple takes an unfair cut of every sale. In fact, Apple has come to very much resemble the Orwellian Big Brother image that once made it famous in its January 22, 1984 Superbowl ad, which positioned Apple’s Macintosh computer as freeing people from tyranny”

Leo Laporte described Steve Jobs as a modern day Thomas Edison. I agree, Jobs, like Edison, was given credit for the work of others. Jobs did inspire, encourage and/or bully others into re-designing technology in unique ways.

Jobs didn’t sell hardware, he sold the idea of a lifestyle with his products at the core. He did change the world, in someways for the good and someways not so good. But, he did give the competition something to strive for. Can Apple survive without him, we will see, but only if they can keep innovating.

> I agree, Jobs, like Edison, was given credit for the work of others.

Genius Group.

Morse didn’t invent (or discover) electricity or the batteries to store it or the copper wires or keys or any of that. He tied all of those together and developed a code that would be utilized over it.

The illusion is that John wants participation on his blog. He has become the anti-Jobs by taking a well fuinctioning blog and making it obfuscated and unusable.

It’s now impossible to have a conversation in the comments. I’ve been a regular participant here for years under many different handles but it looks like it’s time to move on. At least from commenting. Bummer.

Perhaps your eyes are not working quite right? What happens to me is that I focus entirely on the cross, but I still perceive the faces out of the corners of my eyes, but those faces now look like grotesque monsters. The moment I focus on face they are back to normal humans, the moment i focus on the cross its evilness lurking in the shadows

Why can’t I see previous day’s posts? I only get today’s post then have to select by topic? What kind of sense does that make. You don’t post by topic. You post chronologically. You add a topic then sort. But I only get to look at this every few days. Now I can only see one day’s worth then pick a single topic. It’s crazy!!! Boing Boing did the same thing almost a year ago. I emailed them and they changed it the same day then emailed me back and told me that they changed it.

Interestingly, the effect still works even if viewing the crosshair with only one eye open, so it’s not a stereoscopic trick.

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